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Poems of Christina Rossetti (Golden Treasury Series)
by Rossetti, Christina; Edited by William M. Rossetti
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. 332 pages, indexed. Hardcover in full blue and purple striped cloth with gilt design on front cover. The binding is rubbed but sound. Spine is dulled. All edges of text block are gilt, which still look fairly bright. Endpapers are foxed. Text is toned but generally clean. Frontis piece illustration.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047799
- Title
- Poems of Christina Rossetti (Golden Treasury Series)
- Author
- Rossetti, Christina; Edited by William M. Rossetti
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1927; Christina Rossetti; William M. Rossetti; Poetry; Poems; Poet; Golden Treasury Series
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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